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'... the range, meticulous scholarship and accomplished style of the entries transformed Irish biographical research. The latest supplementary volumes, again heroically edited by James Quinn and James McGuire, are well up to these stringent standards.' The Times Literary Supplement '... the range, meticulous scholarship and accomplished style of the entries transformed Irish biographical research. The latest supplementary volumes, again heroically edited by James Quinn and James McGuire, are well up to these stringent standards.' The Times Literary Supplement

'... the range, meticulous scholarship and accomplished style of the entries transformed Irish biographical research. The latest supplementary volumes, again heroically edited by James Quinn and James McGuire, are well up to these stringent standards.' The Times Literary Supplement

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James McGuire is an early modern historian, who taught Irish history at University College Cork and afterwards at University College Dublin. Joint editor of Irish Historical Studies (1987-92), he was appointed Chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 2003, and in 2007 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy. James Quinn has worked as an editor and contributor with the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography project since 1995. He has written widely on various aspects of Irish nationalism, biography and historiography. His publications include Soul on Fire: A Life of Thomas Russell (2001), John Mitchel (2008) and Young Ireland and the writing of Irish history (2015).

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